The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 10

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. by the Press Publishing Company, Now. 63 to ‘& Row, New York. RALPH PULITZD, ANGUS BHA H PULITZE Park Row. 3 Park Row, 63 Park Row. HE ABSOCIATED PRHSS, Ato he une for repribtical paper and ale the loa lon of at! new dencatchee ows blushed herein, VOLUME 88.......- veueucgy SINCE THE TUSCANIA WAS SUNK. T* rush to the recruiting offices since the news of the «NO, 20,628 Tuscania disaster reached this country is proof enough of the way the torpedoing of the troopship and the loss of scores of the brave boys who sang as she went down have reacted on Ameri- cans at home. The newspapers reported the sinking of the Tuscania in their issues of Thursday last. On Saturday Commander Adams, in charge of the naval recruiting in the metropolitan district, reported: “Within four hours of the week beginning yesterday we had recruited our full quota, and since then we have had to turn hundreds of young men away.” That is how American youth takes a challenge. We are proud of what we, a peaceful Nation, have done in ten months to make ourselves a formidable power for war. + But we don’t know yet the thousandth part of the full fighting spirit and strength that are in us. | As we see Americans fall, we begin to feel the vast potentialities of ¢ force that gathers and pushes forward with the grim resolve they shall not have given their lives for nothing. As more fall, that resolve will quicken and deepen until it becomes one all-compelling purpose, calling forth the Nation’s su- preme might. | Then we shall know. THE TORPEDO-PROOF SHIP. HERE was naturally deep interest in the announcement by T Vice Chairman Saunders of the Naval Consulting Board that American inventive genius had at last perfected an unsink- | able, torpedo-proof ship. | Americans, however, are too level-headed to celebrate any suc achievement until they have practical proof that it is actually what they hope. | Mr. Soundere’s optimism regarding the ability of American in- ventors to solve the submarine problem is well known. It might, reasonably be expected, nevertheless, that his cautiousness of state-| ment would have increased rather than diminished since last May, when his “expression of personal opinion” as to the speedy ending, of the submarine peril was held by his colleaguy to be regrettably | premature. | A 9,000-ton vessel, the outer construction of which includes 12,000 air-tight, unsinkable units possessing sufficient bouyant force to keep her afloat even after a torpedo has torn a forty-foot hole in| her side, is, according to Mr. Saunders, ready to cross the Atlantic. Directly Mr. Saunders said it, we were sure to hear more from Washington either about the ship or about Mr. Saunders, His enthusiasm in this particular direction t all events, a thing his fellow countrymen share with him, ——_—_-+- IT NEEDS BOLSTERING. T AT whale luncheon at the American Museum of Natural) History may have put the official seal of patriotic approval | + .oh whale meat. But there is still something American housewives would like to know. Mr. Arthur Williams, Federal Food Administrator of New York, talks of millions of pounds of whale meat that could be supplied to consumers annually at 12 1-2 cents per pound. Her current experience in buying foods recommended by the Food Administration prompts the housekeeper to ask this question: Once there is a patriotic demand created for whale, how long will the price remain at 12 1-2 cents per pound. How long before the retail dealer will be explaining that whale meat has doubled in price because the “wholesale whale handlers” refuse to let it come into the market in quantities sufficient to keep the price down? To save meat for the soldiers, the Food Administration urged housewives to buy more fish, dwelling upon the relative cheapness of the latter. | That cheapness turned out to be but a brief and transitory ilu tion. pay for fish as much as ever she paid for meat. And she aees little help coming from Food Administrators to keep down fish prices, Whale is not fish. But both come out of the sea in abundant quantities and so lend themselves to the valorizing process—the latter being the device by which the supply of anything plenti back so that somebody can realize extra profits on it. Maybe the Food Administrators are ready to take a spocial grip on whale. But when the housekeeper finds herself charged as much per pound for halibut as for chicken her faith in Food Admin- istration ne Hits “Laugh and volstering. hl N ys From Sharp Wits grow fat.” Hoover | burying the hat o Blad sticking up.—T . . . e The trouble with most true stories |W is that it is customary to add a few | the way he wins lines to make them interesting.—Chi- | pends upon the kind a hand ho cago News. \holds.—Hinghamton Pr see oe stamps will do Made oe net with the handle hia Record, card game all de- If you must lle, don't try to fool yourself,—Binghamton Dress. | eee Some people make an awful fuss about a man’s being his own worst ene’ but why should they care?~ Chicago News. . Despite the the kings and « on thin ice winter iperors are skating cago News, . . Some men wouldn't heed the knock of opportunity 1¢ it knocked them down.--Binghumton Press. . ee , Some people keep all thelr one Lanket because you can't divide “ We move to wait until next sum- mer for our coalless days.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. 78 0 The stamp of patriotism—the thrift an egg. — Memphis Co 5 etamp.—Deseret News. peal " mEremet OP oe see A honeymoon {2 the slide down hill, | Picture the great American hobo and all the rest of life is the walk taking his ease back.—Binghamton Press. 8 on the rods of a pre “4 td train as it dashes by the sidetracked limited.—Pjtteburgh Most peace overture provide for Gtar-Times. ' y ‘ ¥ Functioning! EDITORI Monday, F AL PAGE| ebruary 11 j and y ether a man can win a woman | improve with | most of | MONAT Se Bal eee abe etd Tees penn ot earn sane mene ee ety Alaa brennan enincrte 11 YS ieee ENE . pee ee me Snemen 6 a eme n Pate Sonera = SEAT Renee DOLWTS ae en oo How’s Your By Helen Covrright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World), ‘*Morale”’ Rowland HE OTHER DAY, I heard somebody getting terribly excited over “the morale the Army,” or “the morale of the People,” Or “the morale of Germany”—or something, And all of a sudden, It flashed over me, like a great white light, That nobody has more than ONE “morale” to And that the only “morale” I need to worry is MY OWN! ' And then I eaid thie little prayer: “Oh, Lord, ie ny “And in Yankee spunk, that has “When egas go up and wheat ts “Let me not ‘give ald and comfor: | “And helping to drench the world | everybody about me! | “When the bilzzard bloweth and “And the weather seems to be tr: | ichkelt and to win the Iron Cros: “Keep me patient and calm and “That I may help to put serenity cup of tea, i) “There 1s a spoonful of sugar for here 1s a piece of bread for so: | “Yea, make me GAME! their ‘isn't-itawfuls’ and all their pett: “Let me smile back at them with own job, “Ana my OWN ‘morale’! | “To win this wart jreater (han sweaters or socks “The suiie-that-won't-come-off!” That 1s my “morale’—and every How ts YOUR “morale?” War Medals | Of the Fighting Nations Coprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing NO. 4—BELGIUM HB story of the Belgian Army, steadfastly holding the Une which bars the Teutonic invader from the last narrow strip of its native country, Aas been told and told again, but soldiers of this nation, courage and devotion them wear medals for was established tn 183 ation off ed by King tary wer officers, the fifth, wht the Orer, being somet! & of life, “f ribbon, Onder of Teopold ( Courtesy American Nuauatwatio Society, ribbon of blue, being eligible ont the stat ald ofte ch has five classes, # have won the Order of Leopold merit and win these decorations, The housekeeper already wonders how soon she will have to upon the ribbon shows that the bearer earned his decoration at the risk of his life, v tary honor, The modest bronze Cross of War, instituted by King Albert only for soldierly conduct, It is awarde to officers and men alike for gallant ‘ eward of brave r . 1 is held 88.4 reward of bravery in the present | | also, for many nurses, among them members of the Amert- can Red Cross, wear this insignia of devotion to duty on tts red, green-striped ribbon, v Belg resence of their soldier-king, from wh: | received their ¢ arations, cerer lis simple but uplifting. lup in ne, immaculate offivers a just from the trenches. Before each jsalute, while his aide reads the crisp, | the act being rewarded, Bending forw » left chock, the ancient one of the first victims of the great conflict, have shown Of these the highest is the Order of Leopold, which Grand Cordon, being rarely bestowed. Brand Whitlock, for it ts conferred for both civil and mill- The first four classes are awarded only to officers and men for acts of outstanding bravery at the risk ‘The illustration is the Cross of the Chevalier and the crossed swords show it to be for military services. It ‘9 of white and green enamel and worn upon a maroon Ranked only by tho order of Leopold ts the Order of the Crown, also upon a maroon ribbon, and this ts followed by the Order of Leopold IL, which ts disting: to the lowest, and are for clyil and military services to So frequent have been the deeds of courage that many Belgian Military Decoration, upon a red ribbon with black low stripes, was established in 1885 for non-com- | missioned officers and privates and ts a highly prized mill- n Army has the inspiration of the actual ‘Those to be honore 1 mud-stained privates ard, the sov ceremony by which knighthood was Co, (The New York Krening World), its telling still brings a thrill, The which without provocation was made i the highest degree, and many of ednspicuous gallantry. 2. It is in five classes, the first, the This was the decor- Albert to @ distinguished American, ch carries the rank of Chevalier of Imes presented to non-commissioned ished by {ts non-commissioned officers and men IL. Brililant services behind the line , but there i# @ distinction; a palm confilct, 1s bestowed ed without distinction conduct, To women ose hands many have mony of presentation are drawn (Bronze) the King stands at Courtesy American military statement of Numismatic Society, in Kisses the recipient “Glass Wigs” New Venice they are spinning glass! for commercial Uses, converting It into glass colton and glass wool pressed into sheets or pads, Although the principal use of the product at present 1s for insulation, we have the word of the Italian makers that it serves admirably for making artl- ficlal hair, wigs, perukes, doll'’s hatr, Santa Claus beards and other hirsute adornments, says Popular Science Monthly. The processes of manufac- |ture are simple. Solid glass rods, made of pure American soda tha contains ‘no adulteration of lead or \other metal, are worked into fuft wader # Bunsen burow and biowpips. Product of Sciench A bicycle whe up the thr el, minus the tire, winds uds. If the threads are sufficiently fine they curl and fluff out like wool The product is now marketed in three forms—glaas cotton, glass wool, and in sheets about one-half inch thick which resemble white felt pads. In the last form mentioned, it may be used to make separators for ac- cumulators of electricity oo CANNED STUFF. ORE than elghty million quarts By Roy L. ROCRASTINATION the thief of time, it 1s also t Cheat of barbers. Mr really should have gotten his trimmed at least once a month, he had let it grow for five weeks. & it was somewhat guiltily that he climbed into the operating chair of Fred, the sporting barber. Fred received him with forbear- ance, but yet was impelled to remark, as he ran his hand deftly over Mr Jarr’s unduly long locks: “A guy would say that you'd be a classy gink that would keep natty by a hair trim | every two weeks.” “What makes you say that?" asked | Mr. Jarr. | “The bumps on your bean,” rep the sporting barber. “You believe in external crantal in ications of character, then?" Mr, | Jarre inquired in his best Bostones: 0, I wouldn't go go far as to that,” said the tonsortal artist picked up his sclasors and comb, there is something in this ‘f knowledgy’ or ‘preknowledgy,’ or whatever it's called, that tells whether a guy is a simp or a you know, tellin’ fortunes from the pean of a jobbie.” “You mean phrenology,” rep Mr. Jarr, “Oh, that's gono out. ¥ I remember when it was all the fad’ “And why couldn't it be the rent dope?” inquired the sporting | er, your hand, which {s ‘palmistry,’ why not by ‘beantatry “Well, few people place any reli ance in phrenology, uly 04 an exact rcience, these days," sald Mr Jarr, “But I remember when { \ a big following, and when you could see plaster busts everywhere the brain areas labelle ‘Combativencss,’ ‘Amative- Philoprogen: “[ geteha," said the sporting bar- ber as he clipped away “And there's something to that dope, and then again th you can’t always tell, Mr, Jarr inquired as he blew an tating wisp of balr off the end of his nose. “No, not always,” sald the philo sophie Fred, “Now, you've got a bean like a lob, and yet you ain't a} “So, I ain't @ lob, you say? you!” murmured Mr, Jarr re ain't." you mean “Yep, the first time you got into my chalr I sized you for « because your bump of wisdom of fruits and vegetables were canned by girls’ clubs through gut the country last yeas, only @ dent," sald Fred, “Wa shave, too?” Xo know I shave myaell,’ ie. The Jarr Family Ooprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wortd). | Rolsheviki, the 1s not only | piled towel or put any witch hazel or any. | me? You hoit me feelings,” said the “If they can teil your fortune by| wards’ 1) bs ~~ By Bide 6c“ BLL,” said Popple, the W Shipping Clerk, dropping a newspaper, “I see Leon Russian Minister, . Jarr. “I don’t like to shave. made another speech at Trotzky yes- , but my skin is very tender terday and sald Rusela would refuse sensitive, and I never havo been| peace.” 1ble to get a barber, no matter how| Miss Primm, Private Secretary to hard I beg of him to do tt, to shive|the Boss, just had to laugh. “Why me as I want to be shaved—and it's|don't you read the papers more clone- easy for him, too." jly, Mr. Popple?” she asked. "The tut you know nfe, Mr. Jarr,"" sald | man's name 1s Trotzky and Bolshevik! red ina hurt tone. “You know I'd/!s the city tn which he made the give you just the kind of shave you| speech.” want," “Tt seems to me," came from Miss , then," sald Mr, Jarr.|‘Tillle, the Blond Stenographer, “that Now, listen: Go over my face very | {t would be well for Miss Primm to tly. Don't scrape me 0 read more closely, too, Bolshevik! ko over mo only once with | 1s no city. It's the name of a Rus- " gald the barber. sian General. I understand he wants satchs,” |to be elected Czar, but Lemon, the “You haven't got ine,” sald Mr. | other leader, ts bitter and won't let Jarr, “for now comes the tmportant | pj5 part. Listen closely. I want you to| ‘who ever heard of a lemon being | > over my faco once very Nghbtly. | Hitter?" chuckled Bobble, the Office Then wash my face, Wash all tho] yoy, “Lemons are sour.” lather off before you,give mea bot} i.) ie anim pnapped Mise Til- | Ne. Then to the otters sho con- tinued: ‘You'd think Lemon would ald Bolsheviki, wouldn't you?" “I sure would,” said Popple. “But,” asked Bobble with mock seriousness, “does Bolsheviki want Lemon aid?" “If you don’t mind my butting 1n,” came from Spooner, the mild little McCardell “Sure, I thing on me, Get me? I want my | face washed as soon as I am shaved, | for my skin is tender and the best | soap lather stings it and makes it mart and burn." “That's the way I always do a cus- tomer with a tender skin. Why ask sh rag her press heully, sare, bookkeeper, *T@ iike to say you are noo! remarked Mr, , x all mixed wu this Russian matter. nd, tho bair cut now being com-|% iP on, That man's name is Lenine, not Lemon. It was he who assailed the Germans and caused friction.” “That's right," grunted Bobbie, "Kill a good joke. “Good joke?” Miss Primm almost houted, turning and facing the boy. hat was the oldest joke in the J, he lay back to be shaved. Will you want a hot towel afters asked the sporting barber, | “yes, @ couple,” replied Mr, Jarz. “and I want them good and hot. lien only put a little witch hazel on ly face—no bay rum, no lac water, |? | | ple “Help me to keep my pluck and courage, 5 “And my FAITH in everybody and everything! In Amertoan {deals, and American grit, and American ingenuity. “When the heat fails and the water pipes burst and the gas freezes, and the news in the morning paper {8 a little disheartening, “By walling over my own little woes, “Yea, help me to ‘come up smiling’! i “Let me face my meatless, wheatless, “Knowing that for every lump of su, “And that for every cup of flour that I am denied, “Stay me from Joining the knockers! “Help me to be lentent—even to the landlord; i gentle—even to j{tor; and PLEASANT—even to tho {ceman! a! “When complainers come unto me with their ‘oh-how-dreadfuls’ ani | “That will SHAME them into silence! “Though others may fret and fume and sigh and groan, | “And quarrel with fate and the world and one another, » “Let me keep my eyes stead!ly toward the ight, “And my heart and hands steadily u ‘or, though I am only a woman, | “I know that ft will take more than guns and bullets and ships “And 1 know that the greatest thing that a woman can contribute to the ultimate victory—of a man, or an army, or a nation “Is falth and hope and cheer, and glad SELF-SACRIFICE The Office Force Coprtght, 1018, br the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wortd) never yet lost! short and the laundry breaks down t to the BD eMy" in gloom and to take the heart out of the grippe grippeth, ‘ying to outdo the Kaiser in Schrege- sweetly cheerful. into the bearts of tho: around m Sweetless days joyfully, i sar which I must forego im my \ some boy ‘over there,’ me hungry soldier. y troubles, @ courage and confidence pon ‘my OWN knitting,’ my or beanies or arguments, woman’ Dudley world. You're an idiot, I've got to aay," “T hope go," sald Bobbie, “What do you mean “IT hope {i's all you've got to say,’ but I doubt tt. Now, as I was about to remark, 1t ‘Look here, young man!” came from Miss Primm, “I'll do all the talking I please around here and ap: body can stop me.” Oh, now!" sald Spooner, mildly, “Let's try to be pleasant to each oth- er this morning. Does {t interest you to know I sold a short story to magazine yesterday?” “Very much, Mr. Spooner,” said Miss Primm. “What was {ts title? “"The Lighted Match.” “You never should ‘a’ done it,” ald Bobbie, “Why not?” “A lighted match ts apt to blow up the magazine,” “The next person who springs a joke in here will be a fool,” snapped Miss Primm, Mr. Snooks, the boss, entered the room at that juncture, “Anybody got a fountain pen?" he asked. ‘l'm afraid not,” replied Mies Primm sweetly, “We don't use them, “You're all like Civil War veterans, en?” “How's thatl ‘ “Pen shunnera* The bows laughed and retired In his private office. Miss Primm wore a amile, s n excellent pun,” #he said. Now," sald Bobbi the fool around here. We have Miss | Primm's word for it.” \ “I can't stand that boy,” snapped the Private Secretary, as she tale’ out of the room. c That's all 1 no other dope.” me, I shaved President dy Roosevelt when I sald the sporting bar- | | Wilson and ‘1 }was at Yale, Giga of “Uncle Se FACETIOUS remark by an idle! A workman {8 said to have orlg- inated the name by which our | Government is known throughout the world, “Uncle Sam.” During the} war of 1812 Samuel Willetts, a meat inspector of Troy, N. Y., and gener- ally called “Uncle Sam," acted as pufchasing agent for the Govern- ‘And, under no circumstances, no so-called ‘brilliantine’ on my eye- brows!" were the last words, for @ time at least, of Edward Jarr, “Just as you sa replied the sporting barber, Then ho went over Mr. Jarr with soap, rubbed him with caustic and every scented lotion IN| jont, On each barrel of pork and |the shop, and wound up with BriMAD-} Heep accepted ho marked the letters Uno on hia victim's eyebrows. “U, 8." for United States. Some ——————— one inquired what they stood for and one of Willetts's workmen re- plied “Uncle Sam." From this feeble beginning the Joke spread over the whole country and before the end of the war “Uncle Sain” was in common use, The origin of "John Bull” has been a subject of dispute, but the evidence MONEY COSTS MORE, VEN the cost of making the money we use to buy food and pay taxes bas gone up, OM- clals of the Federal Reserve Board say that the increase involved tn cre~ ating our paper money amounts to more than §2 per thousand sheets. m” and “John Bull” publication of Dr. Arbuthnot's satin. eal novel, "John Bull." Other in« vestigators assert that Dean Swifter was the first to use the name, but as- cribe the same year, 1718, to the birth of “John Bull.” ‘The great dean satirized a number of influential men and women, and for his sins he was, in that year, exiled to the deanery of St. Patrick's, in Dublin, Resentment at the machinations of his enemies is said to have led Dean Swift to apply the satirical “John Bull" to the whole English people, There have been @ number of men named John Bull who have attained eminence tn England, | perhaps tho greatest being the de. | tinguished musician of that name Hi was born in 1563 and died in Having once played before a James a song loh he called “God scems to show that the nickname first ‘Changing labor conditions and ma- erial out became popular in 171%, following the terial costs” ere held responsi Save the Kin, the anthem of England’ has. bene oat Fonsously attributed te Joba Suu!”